Has anybody instrumented the time zone code to determine where the sinks are? Is the area questioned below one of them? --ado

...We have started to look at performance in this software. I have a question that I was hoping you could answer about one piece of code in particular in the routine settzname. It is the code filling in the time zone name in tzname. The code fragment is:

/* ** And to get the latest zone names into tzname. . . */ for (i = 0; i < sp->timecnt; ++i) { register const struct ttinfo * const ttisp =

&sp->ttis[sp->types[i]];

tzname[ttisp->tt_isdst] = (char *) &sp->chars[ttisp->tt_abbrind]; }

I am not sure why this code is looping so many times to fill in tzname. tzname only has two fields, one for daylight savings time, one for standard savings time, but the fields get filled in over and over. I would really appreciate any information you have explaining this.

thanks in advance,

Sandra Whitman DEC C RTL